Analysis of The Poet
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
There was strength in him and the weak won freely from it,
There was an infinite pity, and hard hearts grew soft thereby,
There was truth so unshrinking and starry-shining,
Men read clear by its light and learned to scorn a lie.
His were songs so full of a wholesome laughter
Those whose courage was ashen found it once more aflame,
His was a child-like faith and wandering feet were guided,
His was a hope so joyous despair was put to shame.
His was the delicate insight and his the poignant vision
Whereby the world might learn what wine-lipped roses know,
What a drift of rain might lisp on a gray sea-dawning,
Or a pale spring of the woodland babble low.
He builded a castle of dream and a palace of rainbow fancy,
And the starved souls of his fellows lived in them and grew glad;
And yetthere were those who mocked the gifts of his generous giving,
And somebut he smiled and forgave themwho deemed him wholly mad!
Scheme | XABA XCXC XDBD XEBE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1110100111011 111100100111111 1111101010 111111011101 10111101010 1110110111101 11011101001010 1101110011111 11010010101010 010111111101 1011111101110 1011101101 110101100101110 00111110101011 0110111011110010 011110011111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 922 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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